Question
What is the Eviction Lab?
Short answer
The Eviction Lab is a research team at Princeton University led by sociologist Matthew Desmond. It built the first national database of eviction records in America so the scale of the problem could finally be measured.
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Matthew Desmond
Matthew Desmond is the Princeton sociologist who wrote Evicted, the Pulitzer-winning book about families losing their homes. He also runs the Eviction Lab, which built the first national database of American evictions.
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